Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A failure or refusal to agree.
- noun A disparity; an inconsistency.
- noun A conflict or difference of opinion.
- noun A quarrel.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Want of agreement; difference, either in form or in essence; dissimilitude; diversity; unlikeness: as, the disagreement of two ideas, of two stories, or of any two objects in some respects similar.
- noun Difference of opinion or sentiments.
- noun Unsuitableness; unfitness; lack of conformity.
- noun A falling out; a wrangle; contention.
- noun Synonyms Distinction, Diversity, etc. (see
difference ); unlikeness, discrepancy. - noun Variance, misunderstanding, dissension, division, dispute, jarring, clashing, strife.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of disagreeing; a being at variance; dissimilitude; diversity.
- noun rare Unsuitableness; unadaptedness.
- noun Difference of opinion or sentiment.
- noun A falling out, or controversy; difference.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
argument ordebate . - noun A condition of not
agreeing orconcurring .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the speech act of disagreeing or arguing or disputing
- noun a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters
- noun a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions
Etymologies
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Examples
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In brief, the Kazakh language bloggers 'main disagreement is that this draft law would make it possible to ban a blog for any reason, while bloggers would have no rights.
Global Voices in English » Kazakhstan: Kazakh bloggers against online censorship 2009
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Anything in disagreement is wrong, and anything in agreement is redundant.
Matthew Yglesias » Breaking: Michelle Obama Reads Books 2010
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The heart of the disagreement is the "international currency war," as Guido Mantega, the Brazilian finance minister, called it three weeks ago.
Garrett Johnson: The Crowning Failure of the Old Governments Garrett Johnson 2010
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The heart of the disagreement is the "international currency war," as Guido Mantega, the Brazilian finance minister, called it three weeks ago.
Garrett Johnson: The Crowning Failure of the Old Governments Garrett Johnson 2010
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The heart of the disagreement is the "international currency war," as Guido Mantega, the Brazilian finance minister, called it three weeks ago.
Garrett Johnson: The Crowning Failure of the Old Governments Garrett Johnson 2010
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Oh, Ana, I disagree -- and my disagreement is about substance rather than positioning.
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No, the disagreement is about whether affirmative action is a corrective to centuries of injustice that may have ceased to be useful, or whether affirmative action is itself an injustice perpetrated against the oppressed white race by a cabal of overprivileged minorities and the powerful liberal elite.
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Thus our disagreement is a matter of degree, not kind.
Waldo Jaquith - Brownlee rebuffed DoJ demands to go easy on OxyContin maker. 2007
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If one doesn't agree with that foundational structure, I suppose they could perceive that the disagreement is an attack.
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But the disagreement is almost always over how best to allocate public resources.
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